I miss those days
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Pair the tape
I can't even, why is this so funny?(◕‿◕')
Love me some anachronism stew.
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I can see the use if you're for example driving an older car with mostly original kit and don't want an anachronistic stereo in it. So you pair up your fake cassette to your modern phone and can still play Spotify or w/e with the original kit.
There's even an 8-Track version of it.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Also buying a whole-ass new car stereo (+ installation) is much more expensive than a bluetooth adaptor from China
So if you're driving an ancient car out of necessity rather than for the aesthetic, this can help you get music into it.
F'course
Most cars from the age of tapes nowadays are relics. "Old cars" in the range that poor people drive out of necessity are from the CD age instead.
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Also buying a whole-ass new car stereo (+ installation) is much more expensive than a bluetooth adaptor from China
So if you're driving an ancient car out of necessity rather than for the aesthetic, this can help you get music into it.
F'course
Most cars from the age of tapes nowadays are relics. "Old cars" in the range that poor people drive out of necessity are from the CD age instead.
You'd be surprised, I've seen cars from as late as 08 that still had cassette. Though that's probably heavily dependent on manufacturer, model, region, and sub model type. But my point still stands, hell id wouldn't be surprised if there was a car or two manufactured in 2012 that still came stock with a cassette deck.
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I can see the use if you're for example driving an older car with mostly original kit and don't want an anachronistic stereo in it. So you pair up your fake cassette to your modern phone and can still play Spotify or w/e with the original kit.
There's even an 8-Track version of it.
...used to be folks also made adapters with FM micro-transmitters for cars without tape decks; might still do...
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They make these things with bluetooth now believe it or not.
Pair the tape
Stick it in a cassette player
Play music on your phone.
How does that work from the fake cassette to the player? Does the fake cassette record what's streaming to it to a loop of tape and let the player pick up the audio?
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Yeah, they were actually pretty ahead of their time. It was before people had become accustomed to music subscriptions, so that scared a lot of people away. But the fact that it would just automatically sync with your library, and you could download whatever songs you wanted for offline play in the car… It was groundbreaking at the time. Plus it had a built-in FM receiver, so you could listen to the radio while on the go too.
...my father-in-law still squirts, but mostly from neuropathy-associated incontinence...
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You can't even pass people the aux anymore
Spotify Jams now. But passing the aux is a lost bonding experience
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Aux cable is the pinnacle of car audio sharing technology.
Until the to the fucking jacks out of the phones
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They make these things with bluetooth now believe it or not.
Pair the tape
Stick it in a cassette player
Play music on your phone.
God damn it. Another thing I have to charge.
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I had one that turned 1/8" into it's own radio frequency. It was really shitty but it worked!
Edit: just looked and they still sell them! https://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-Adapter-Built-iPhone-Players/dp/B076X3GSMH
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I had a fuckin boombox in my back seat for a while, then I upgraded to one of those portable ipod docks and plugged that shit into the cigarette lighter. Actually was pretty decent lol
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Also buying a whole-ass new car stereo (+ installation) is much more expensive than a bluetooth adaptor from China
So if you're driving an ancient car out of necessity rather than for the aesthetic, this can help you get music into it.
F'course
Most cars from the age of tapes nowadays are relics. "Old cars" in the range that poor people drive out of necessity are from the CD age instead.
Am poor still driving my 1997 truck, it has an aux tho
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There are way way worse CDs to get stuck.
Obligatory Don't worry... It comes around again.
I’m Gonna Be and Mr Brightside are the Scylla and Charybdis of wedding discos. Also, for some reason there are always guys in kilts.
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Grandma, what's an iPod?
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...used to be folks also made adapters with FM micro-transmitters for cars without tape decks; might still do...
They still do. This is how I play stuff in my '03 Jeep.
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I had one that turned 1/8" into it's own radio frequency. It was really shitty but it worked!
Edit: just looked and they still sell them! https://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-Adapter-Built-iPhone-Players/dp/B076X3GSMH
I built one myself!
Probablydefinitely way more powerful than the legal limit, practically making it a pirate radio station... -
I built one myself!
Probablydefinitely way more powerful than the legal limit, practically making it a pirate radio station...Kewl
U need help? I did one myself with icecast and shit
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I remember excluding cars with CD players from my purchasing decisions for this reason! Should either have a tape or aux in.
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Technology Connections' video on the topic:
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How does that work from the fake cassette to the player? Does the fake cassette record what's streaming to it to a loop of tape and let the player pick up the audio?
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glassesSo a cassette tape works by using electromagnetism.
Ferric Oxide (AKA, literally rust powder) has a property that if exposed to a magnetic field, it will create a weak version of that magnetic field within itselfSo the record head of a tape machine is an electromagnet that changes its field based on the actual audio signal, translating audio frequencies directly to magnetic directions and strengths, while the read head is a passive electromagnetic coil that picks up that weak magnetic field on the rust-coated plastic tape while a small motor runs the tape past it and emits it as a soundwave.
The tape adapter skips 90% of these steps —
— It just has an electromagnetic coil of its own, positioned so it lines up with the play head, and when you feed it an audio signal, that audio signal gets directly translated to a magnetic field just by running it through the coil. The tape deck picks it up and doesn't even realise there is no tape running through
